Tokyo will implement a four-day workweek for government employees next year to encourage young people to get married and start families. The United States and Britain announced sanctions targeting a transnational gold smuggling and money launder network in Zimbabwe on Monday, Hungary's authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, met Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Rep. Mike Waltz at the U.S. president-elect's Florida resort on Friday, the European leader said online. Moscow said that the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session at its request Monday to discuss the situation in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime by opposition forces. Sotheby's is auctioning off a "vastly important historic artifact," the oldest-known carving of the Ten Commandments dating back approximately 1,500 years. President Joe Biden was slated to speak Monday at his fourth and final Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, according to the White House. The United States and Japan are expressing concerns about developments in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the "deepening military cooperation between the DPRK and Russia," the U.S. State Department said. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to hear a legal challenge to admissions criteria at Boston high schools based on ZIP code designed to diversify its student body. A Manhattan jury on Monday returned a not guilty verdict in the case of Daniel Penny, who was on trial for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a New York City subway last year. A professional reptile wrangler was summoned to a South African home after a resident found a highly venomous cape cobra lurking underneath the pillow on their bed. A pair of Michigan brothers came to the aid of a deer that fell through the ice covering an Upper Peninsula bay -- and then rescued it a second time moments later. K-pop group Stray Kids released a preview of its video for "Walkin on Water," a song from its mixtape "Hop." A North Carolina man said he accidentally won a $177,749 jackpot by playing an online lottery game he thought was in demo mode. A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, is set to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Tuesday. Hulu is previewing Season 2 of the animated family show "The Bravest Knight." Peacock will release Season 8 "Superfan Episodes" of "The Office" featuring extended material. Derek Carr, Aidan O'Connell, Jonathan Brooks and Bucky Irving were among key players injured in Week 14 of the NFL season. A California highway was left in a sweet and sticky state after a truck fire caused the roadway to become covered in more than 30,000 pounds of melted chocolate. A Pennsylvania town's holiday parade was capped off by participants and spectators attempting a Guinness World Record for the largest "Macarena" dance. AMC Networks is teasing Season 2 of "Horror's Greatest," which premieres on its horror streaming platform, Shudder, Dec. 31. Cancer patients undergoing CAR T-cell therapy might benefit from following a keto diet, a new study finds. Two business entities have teamed-up to mount a new effort to takeover the struggling Macy's department store chain, according to new information. |
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